Augmented Reality

New York City is a very easy place to get lost. Trying to find landmarks and known business are nearly impossible unless you are carrying a lot of maps and books. Now engineers at Nokia are helping improve this by using Mobile Augmented Reality Applications. This is something on your phone where you could hold up a phone to landmarks or known business and it will tell you what they are and where they are. This could also help you when looking for a good restaurant to eat or a nice hotel to stay. Markus Kähäri last October revealed a proto­type of the system at the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. This is going to help many tourist around the world to get around there city they're in the right way. Not only will it help tourists it will help everyday people navigate themselves around there own cities because no matter how long you have lived in New York City you will never know every restaurant and business.

Sick power

Batteries are needed in everyday life. You use them for your cars, phones, lights, just about anything. The batteries we use for our electronic devices have mostly relied on non-lifelike arrangements such as lead-acid and nickel-cadmium hybrids to produce power. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T) report that they constructed a battery that uses biological matter, namely a virus dubbed M13 as a key component. This virus essentially acts as a “biological scaffold,” to support elements of a lithium ion-type battery. At M.I.T they have already created a prototype that has been as a coin cell, batteries in watches and small lights. Researches believe that eventually this battery would be the new battery used in ipods, cell phones, and even hybrid cars.